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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we all just recognize this as a developer handout, rather than some legitimate government program, it's the only way it makes sense. Developers have always owned politicians in this area, and this is no different. One of the Arlington developers even got his 20-something daughter to write an article in some Washington magazine about how great MM would be. It was posted a while back in the Real Estate forum.[/quote]

Who is handing what to developers? Please explain.[/quote]

See my post on a property https://www.redfin.com/VA/Arlington/4192-39th-St-N-22207/home/11230402?&utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=1023856&utm_term=aud-923999260716:dsa-1341488483656&utm_content=454669090002&adgid=111663012208&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI192BttXi_AIVh6_ICh3yiwlkEAAYASAAEgJSrvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

2.9 m for a single family.  4 units at 1700 sq feet .   2 bed + 3rd flex as bed/office/den and 2.5 baths.  800k*4=3.2m minimum.[/quote]

Omg, a 6 bedroom, 6.5 bath, 6,815 square foot, $2.9 million "single family house" with a cathedral for the bathtub. That's fine, but 2 attached houses with 3 bedrooms/3 baths and 3,400 sf each, that would be the end of the world? :roll: [/quote]

How much street parking is available and how crowded are the schools for when you double the number of cars and kids on the lot?[/quote]

But posters keep assuring us that no families with children will want to live in such housing! In which case, there will be no additional children in the schools.

Posters are also telling us that the housing will have to have garages to house the most important members of the family.

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Yes, new units should be required to have at least one parking spot per unit and plan for the required infrastructure and public facilities of increased population. Not sure why you’re opposed to that. I live in a “missing middle” townhouse condo. Our row of 5 units has a combined 10 cars, one motorcycle, and 2 school age children… and this is within half a mile walk of the metro and right on a commuter ART line. It’s ridiculous to act like there are no negative externalities imposed on neighbors by upzoning, so planning is necessary.[/quote]

Ah, so families with children actually do live in middle-type housing? Well, well.[/quote]

You seriously seem a little unwell.  The tone and snark and what not while some of us are having a reasonable discussion about ways to do this that make sense.  IE add units, near transit and account for the infrastructure needed to support them.

And then there is whatever you are doing. [/quote]

You're not having a reasonable discussion, you're just continuing on the idea that was rejected last night:  that areas that currently only allow single-unit detached housing should continue to only allow single-unit detached housing, and every other kind of housing type should go somewhere else.[/quote]

Not wanting more density is a valid position. Get back to me when you increase summer camp and other rec opportunities so I can sign my kids up for swim lessons and day camp without it being like the thunderdome. Remember when we swapped school locations a year or two ago? That happened because the county keeps approving housing without worrying about downstream impact. You can expect more of that. [/quote]

Of course it's a valid position. But is it a good position, from the point of view of public policy? I don't think so, in my personal opinion. More relevantly, Arlington elected representatives also don't think so.[/quote]

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